Our study investigates relative changes to the value individuals place on the disclosure of their private information. We use an incentive compatible mechanism to capture an individual's willingness-to-accept (WTA) for a privacy disclosure in three randomized experiments. Characteristics of the...

Data breach notification laws in the United States mandate firms to take remedial actions when consumer data is compromised. Interestingly, the policies contained within these laws vary by state and by year of law enactment. We investigate the effects of the various policies to determine how...

Online labor markets and the humans that power them serve a critical role in the advancement of artificial intelligence and supervised machine learning via the creation of high-quality training datasets. The use of human effort in online labor markets is not enough, however, as a key factor is...

There are many contexts where an "everybody else is doing it" attitude is relevant. We evaluate the impact of this attitude in a multi-threshold public goods game. We use a lab experiment to study the role of providing information about contribution behavior to targeted subsets of individuals,...

The objective of our paper is to determine the effect of piracy advice from various sources on music consumer behavior. Specifically, does it matter if the source of advice has a stake in the outcome of the piracy decision? Does it matter if the source of advice has a social tie with the...